"Although an artisan may be an artist (sometimes he isn't, of course), every artist must be a first class artisan." Hanna Segal

Join Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center for

Creativity and Aesthetic Experience:

A Psychoanalytic Approach

Presentation by Jean-Michel Quinodoz, Swiss Psychoanalyst and Author

Discussant, Judith A. Rubin, Art Therapist and Psychoanalyst

Emeritus Member of Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center

Friday, June 8, 2012

6:30-9:00 pm

Chatham University Eddy Theatre

2.5 Continuing Education Credits available (see below for more information)

Chatham University Department of Film Studies

Pittsburgh Association for Psychoanalytic Thought

With special thanks to Bill Cornell and the Keeping Our Work Alive series

For more information www.pghpsa.org or 412-661-4224

$5 students and candidates

$15 general admission (no continuing education credits)

$35 for 2.5 Continuing Education Credits with admission





Come experience another exciting film and discussion hosted by the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center!

He Loves Me He Loves Me Not is a 2002 French psychological thriller that follows the thoughts of artist/café worker/house sitter Angelique (Audrey Tautou) and married cardiologist Dr. Lorie Le Garrec (Samuel Le Bihan). Following the movie, stay for a discussion of erotomania, stalking and relationship violence.

Analytic Flicks
June 1, 2012, 6:30 PM
Bigelow Conference Center
4338 Bigelow Blvd., Oakland

Following the film, Kathleen George, PhD, noted Pittsburgh mystery writer and Pitt professor, and Matt Markon, LCSW, therapist in private practice and former lawyer and consultant to the Washington DC Police Department, will discuss the themes and content with Stacey Wettstein, PhD, psychologist and psychotherapist as moderator.

Mental health professionals requesting CMEs/CEUs must preregister on the website.
Suggested donation- $10/$5 for students



LitAnalysis: Reading Fiction With Freud

Saturdays, 2 - 3 pm at the Main Carnegie Library

The PPC has teamed up with the Main Carnegie Library in Oakland to provide a chance to really analyze fiction. PPC Faculty and Candidates will provide insight and analysis of popular fiction works in an informal discussion held at the Main Carnegie Library in Oakland. All discussions will be held on Saturday from 2-3 pm in Classroom A.

(Free and Open to the Public)

March 24, 2012   "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" discussion with

                             Mario Fischetti, Ph.D., Faculty PPC, Psychoanalyst, Psychologist in

private practice

April 28, 2012     "Little Bee" discussion with Candidate Matt Markon, J.D., M.S.W.

in private practice

May 26, 2012      "Room" discussion with Eleanor Irwin, Ph.D., Child and Adult

Psychoanalyst and Psychologist in private practice

June 23, 2012     "The Tiger’s Wife" discussion with Mario Fischetti, Ph.D.

PPC provides these opportunities for the public to be engaged in the vital community of thought that exists in psychoanalytic themes.

Analytic Flicks

Save the date for: Bill Cunningham New York

The next film in our series will inspire you to:

a. dress to impress

b. ride a bike

c. keep reinventing yourself into and beyond your eighties

d. ALL OF THE ABOVE

Come examine the life of contributor to the New York Times Fashion magazine, Bill Cunninham, who uses an almost analytic method to spot what is being expressed on the streets of New York through the lens of fashion. More information about the speakers and the topics that will be discussed will be posted soon.

Friday, April 13, 2012

6:30-9:30 PM

Bigelow Conference and Reception Center

4338 Bigelow Blvd. (See Map)

$10 Suggested Entry Donation/ $5 Students

3 CE Available ($25 Administrative Fee)

Snacks Available (Donation Requested)

Pre-register space limited use link below

1/2 Sandwich available for pre-order $5



Analytic Flicks provides an opportunity to use film as a way of looking at the human experience through the analytic lens. Psychoanalysts and others in the mental health field will provide insight into the material presented in the films. The series is offered on Friday evenings at the beautiful Bigelow Conference and Reception Center at 4338 Bigelow Boulevard in the heart of Oakland, with convenient parking in Soldiers and Sailors Garage (The conference center is located next to the 20th Century Club -- some GPS systems may not correctly navigate to this address).

 The presentation will begin with a ten-minute showing of On Empathy,
Kohut’s last presentation (1981). It completes the circle in the spotlight he
shone, since 1959, on the concept of empathy and its fundamental nature
within psychoanalytic observation and data-gathering. My own pathway in
analytic training which I shall try to illustrate, molded particularly in
comparative supervisory encounters, led me to recognize the extraordinary
power in grappling with the implications in Freud’s groundbreaking
discovery, dening the domain of psychoanalysis: “psychic reality” – that is,
inner reality – “as the decisive kind.” e concept of empathy, understood
not as a theory-specic or technical stance, but as intrinsic to our mode of
listening and observation, may then be viewed as a central dimension
illuminating this intrapsychic domain, -- our psychoanalytic data base.
Clinical examples including citations from the work of Freud and Kohut,
commentary from the late Japanese psychoanalyst, Takeo Doi, and
observations from infant research illuminated by Louis Sander, will be
oered for further elaboration.

Educational Objectives:

1. To discern more subtly diering cues by which individual reality may be revealed in listening to and observing patients’ associations and behaviors,

2. to describe the distinctively analytic mode of observation of the workings of patients’ minds, and

3. to note added dimensions in the illuminative power in a stance of ongoing struggle to listen, and the rewards in capacity for discovery. 

2 CE Available for this presentation for psychiatrists, psychologists and Social Workers

From the My Name Was Sabina Spielrein Website:

Docudrama is a delicate genre especially when it is dealing with history. Many people fell into the temptation of mixing dry facts with colourful romantic images. The filmmaker Elisabeth Márton, who has already proven her ability to realize well thought out films (among others "Way of the Winds”, where she illustrates the life and work of the photographer Lütfi Özkök), finds from the very beginning a happy balance between sensationalism and contemplation, between emotion and knowledge. Márton and her team create an elegant and aesthetically challenging puzzle emplying conventionell methods like old diaries, yellowed photographs and crumpled papers. The short dramatic scenes appear like quickly hurrying shadows. They form and underline a spiritual condition and do not simply function as a dramatic device. That’s good, particularly in relation to the tragic end which shows how Sabina Spielrein and her family once again found themselves trapped between two unforgiving rulers: Stalin and Hitler. Her brothers became victims of Stalin’s terror. Sabina Spielrein was killed in 1942 in Rostov on Don by Nazi soldiers.

Helena Lindblad, Dagens Nyheter 14.10.02

Márton’s deft re-enactments and the actors’ dramatic readings of Spielrein’s own words tell a chilling story, bringing to light both the work of this pioneer and the dark side of psychoanalysis. Documentary and drama carry Spielrein’s life into the crosshairs of warring ideologies (Communism, National Socialism). With a rare gift for melding subjectivity with biographical facts, Márton brings Sabina Spielrein back to life, body and soul.

B. Ruby Rich, Toronto International Film Festival 2002

Presentation following the film:

Psychoanalysis: A Cure by Love Traversing the Edge of the Psyche and Body

Mario Fischetti, Ph.D.

Psychoanalyst and Psychologist in Private Practice

Volunteer Faculty Member Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center

And

An Aborted Attempt At Coming Into Being: The Failure of Freud and Jung in the Case of Sabina Spielrein

Marlene Goldsmith, Ph.D.

Clinical Psychologist in private practice

Poet

Moderator

Prajna Parasher, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Film Chatham University

Filmmaker

Bruce R. Baker, Ph.D. has turned his life long facination with linguistics into a passion for helping individuals wtih physical disabilities.  Dr. Baker, an adjunct associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh's School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, is founder and president of Semantic Compaction Systems.  His company, based in Castle Shannon, develops, translates, and licenses iconic interfaces for computers in a variety of languages.  He was compelled to develop Minspeak in 1980 after meeting intellegent people who were physically unale to write, talk,, or use hand signs.  He used his classic linguistic training to create a patented visual languats system based upon ancient heiroglyphics.

Joseph Hinchliffe, M.D., is a volunteer faculty person with Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center. He will present on Silence, issues of treating people with severe communication disabilities, technical and psychoanalytic perspectives, and the Person Within: working with a non speaking individual, and communicating with non-speakers.

Jennifer Lowe is a Minspeak user and elloquent provider of the perspective of those individuals with severe communication disability. She is Executive Director of SHOUT and is featured in the film "Only God Can Hear Me."

PPC wishes to thank all the participants for their time and energy.

Sign Up Now for Spring Session           Writing Your Life: A Journey In Self-Discovery

Inspired by the book, "Growing Old: A Journey of Self-Discovery," this new 'life writing' course was offered to all members of the community, young and old, as a time to reflect on your self-narrative and develop a more cohesive sense of self. Participants requested we offer another session.

Classes will be held in the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center

Wednesdays from 7:00 to 8:30 pm

Cost for the whole series is $40 (Scholarships are available)

The next series will be offered in April! If you are interested, email administration@pghpsa.org

and PPC will alert you of when to sign up and what dates will be offered.

Thank you for visiting! We hope to see you at some of these events.